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Free Instagram Story maker: Create captivating Stories online

Seize the social media spotlight with powerful Instagram Stories. Select your favorite photos and video clips, and use Picsart's free online Instagram Story maker to craft them into share-worthy themed content. The versatile photo editor supplies all the tools and templates you need to create, edit, and customize Instagram Stories in no time, with no design skills necessary.

Make an Instagram Story
Free Instagram Story maker
Easy to use

Easy to use

Create Instagram Stories in minutes using intuitive drag-and-drop tools—no advanced skills needed.

Instagram Story templates

Instagram Story templates

Enjoy a vast library of professionally made templates to jumpstart your Instagram Story design.

Customization with AI tools

Customization with AI tools

Elevate your Stories with AI-powered design tools. Auto-generate content, enhance images, and more!

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How to create an Instagram Story with Picsart

1

Open Picsart

Use the Start creating button to open the Instagram Story creator.

2

Choose a template

3

Edit text

4

Customize

5

Download

How to create an Instagram Story with Picsart

Design standout social media content with an Instagram Story maker

Make an Instagram Story to keep your content fresh and entertaining. Picsart’s Instagram Story creator helps you transform your unique photos, videos, and messaging into eye-catching slideshows in a matter of minutes. Work with premade designs, or infuse your personal touch into every element. Get started for free without any need for special design skills.

Custom Instagram Story design by Picsart

Save time with Instagram Story templates

Get a major head start in your design process with ready-made Instagram Story templates. Spreading the word about an achievement, event, sale, or update? Find the perfect template style to match your aesthetic or theme, and personalize the design in seconds. Keep the momentum going by creating Instagram posts, Reels, and more with Picsart's templates.

Pre-designed Instagram Story templates

Customize your Instagram Stories with powerful editing tools

Give your audience a reason to Like your content. Picsart's easy-to-use editing tools make it quick and simple to tailor your Instagram Story to your brand aesthetic or industry. Enhance your photos with AI, add decorative elements like stickers and animations, and even generate images from text prompts. Picsart’s Instagram Story builder provides everything you need to create content with a memorable point of view.

Limitless customization of Instagram Stories by Picsart editing tools

All the tools you need to create Instagram Stories

Make every moment count in your Instagram Stories. Use all the tools available in Picsart’s free Instagram Story creator to design polished visuals that drive engagement.

Intuitive tools

Effortlessly design Instagram Stories without any experience.

Predesigned templates

Find stylish, professional templates to kickstart your design.

Full customization

Enjoy total control over text, images, and every design element.

Modern fonts

Choose from a wide variety of fonts to match your style.

Photos, stickers and icons

Enhance your Instagram Stories using Picsart’s vast library of design features.

Export in any format

Download your fully customized Stories in formats like JPG, PNG, and more.

High-resolution

Make Instagram Stories stand out with vibrant, high-quality visuals.



See it in action in this Editing Lab episode

Follow along with this detailed tutorial from Picsart’s YouTube channel to master your editing skills. Start creating incredible visuals today with expert guidance that breaks down every step of the process.



Instagram Story maker FAQ

The optimal size for Instagram Stories is 1080 pixels wide by 1920 pixels tall (a 9:16 aspect ratio). Picsart contains a wide variety of templates in these standard dimensions, but you can also create a custom size if needed.

Of course! Upload your own photos or other images to personalize your Stories. Use Picsart photo editing tools to make enhancements or edits before adding them to your design.

While Picsart doesn't currently support adding music, you can easily add music within Instagram after uploading your Story.

Absolutely! You can use Picsart to easily design a cohesive look for all your Instagram content. To save time, you can create custom templates to reuse for similar posts.

Browse Picsart's library of Instagram Story templates, or find inspiration on platforms like Instagram and Pinterest. Look at content targeted to audiences similar to yours, and pay attention to formats and visual themes that perform well.


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Use image models to build story backgrounds, product moments, and social visuals.

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Fast 4K generation with accurate text and search-grounded accuracy.4KFast generationImage generationSee model
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Adaptable generation across varied visual styles at 2K.Image generationSee model
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Kling O1 Image
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Kling V2 New Image
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Hunyuan V3
Infographic-friendly generation with readable text and cfg control.Image generationSee model
Luma UNI-1
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Luma UNI-1 Max
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Seedream 4.5
Detailed 4K renders with clean in-image text and dual-image input.Reference input4KImage generationSee model
GPT Image 2New
Next-gen GPT image model with arbitrary output dimensions and multi-image input.Reference inputImage generationSee model
Nano Banana 2New
Fast 4K generation with accurate text and search-grounded accuracy.4KFast generationImage generationSee model
Nano Banana ProNew
Top-tier 4K images with precise multilingual text rendering.4KPro qualityImage generationSee model
Flux 2 FlexNew
Adaptable generation across varied visual styles at 2K.Image generationSee model
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Speedy 3K output with negative prompt and dual-image input support.Reference inputFast generationImage generationSee model
Kling 3.0 Image
Cinematic visuals with up to 4K resolution and 10 reference images.Reference input4KCinematicSee model
Kling O1 Image
O1-architecture image generation with multi-reference support.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Kling V2 New Image
Latest V2 image generation with optional restyle via image reference.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Hunyuan V3
Infographic-friendly generation with readable text and cfg control.Image generationSee model
Luma UNI-1
Luma UNI-1 — agentic image generation and editing with up to 9 reference images.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Luma UNI-1 Max
Luma UNI-1 Max — higher-quality UNI-1 variant with the same multi-reference editing controls.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Seedream 4.5
Detailed 4K renders with clean in-image text and dual-image input.Reference input4KImage generationSee model
GPT Image 2New
Next-gen GPT image model with arbitrary output dimensions and multi-image input.Reference inputImage generationSee model
Nano Banana 2New
Fast 4K generation with accurate text and search-grounded accuracy.4KFast generationImage generationSee model
Nano Banana ProNew
Top-tier 4K images with precise multilingual text rendering.4KPro qualityImage generationSee model
Flux 2 FlexNew
Adaptable generation across varied visual styles at 2K.Image generationSee model
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Speedy 3K output with negative prompt and dual-image input support.Reference inputFast generationImage generationSee model
Kling 3.0 Image
Cinematic visuals with up to 4K resolution and 10 reference images.Reference input4KCinematicSee model
Kling O1 Image
O1-architecture image generation with multi-reference support.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Kling V2 New Image
Latest V2 image generation with optional restyle via image reference.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Hunyuan V3
Infographic-friendly generation with readable text and cfg control.Image generationSee model
Luma UNI-1
Luma UNI-1 — agentic image generation and editing with up to 9 reference images.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Luma UNI-1 Max
Luma UNI-1 Max — higher-quality UNI-1 variant with the same multi-reference editing controls.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Seedream 4.5
Detailed 4K renders with clean in-image text and dual-image input.Reference input4KImage generationSee model
GPT Image 2New
Next-gen GPT image model with arbitrary output dimensions and multi-image input.Reference inputImage generationSee model
Nano Banana 2New
Fast 4K generation with accurate text and search-grounded accuracy.4KFast generationImage generationSee model
Nano Banana ProNew
Top-tier 4K images with precise multilingual text rendering.4KPro qualityImage generationSee model
Flux 2 FlexNew
Adaptable generation across varied visual styles at 2K.Image generationSee model
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Speedy 3K output with negative prompt and dual-image input support.Reference inputFast generationImage generationSee model
Kling 3.0 Image
Cinematic visuals with up to 4K resolution and 10 reference images.Reference input4KCinematicSee model
Kling O1 Image
O1-architecture image generation with multi-reference support.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Kling V2 New Image
Latest V2 image generation with optional restyle via image reference.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Hunyuan V3
Infographic-friendly generation with readable text and cfg control.Image generationSee model
Luma UNI-1
Luma UNI-1 — agentic image generation and editing with up to 9 reference images.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Luma UNI-1 Max
Luma UNI-1 Max — higher-quality UNI-1 variant with the same multi-reference editing controls.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Seedream 4.5
Detailed 4K renders with clean in-image text and dual-image input.Reference input4KImage generationSee model
GPT Image 2New
Next-gen GPT image model with arbitrary output dimensions and multi-image input.Reference inputImage generationSee model
Nano Banana 2New
Fast 4K generation with accurate text and search-grounded accuracy.4KFast generationImage generationSee model
Nano Banana ProNew
Top-tier 4K images with precise multilingual text rendering.4KPro qualityImage generationSee model
Flux 2 FlexNew
Adaptable generation across varied visual styles at 2K.Image generationSee model
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Speedy 3K output with negative prompt and dual-image input support.Reference inputFast generationImage generationSee model
Kling 3.0 Image
Cinematic visuals with up to 4K resolution and 10 reference images.Reference input4KCinematicSee model
Kling O1 Image
O1-architecture image generation with multi-reference support.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Kling V2 New Image
Latest V2 image generation with optional restyle via image reference.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Hunyuan V3
Infographic-friendly generation with readable text and cfg control.Image generationSee model
Luma UNI-1
Luma UNI-1 — agentic image generation and editing with up to 9 reference images.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Luma UNI-1 Max
Luma UNI-1 Max — higher-quality UNI-1 variant with the same multi-reference editing controls.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Seedream 4.5
Detailed 4K renders with clean in-image text and dual-image input.Reference input4KImage generationSee model
GPT Image 2New
Next-gen GPT image model with arbitrary output dimensions and multi-image input.Reference inputImage generationSee model
Nano Banana 2New
Fast 4K generation with accurate text and search-grounded accuracy.4KFast generationImage generationSee model
Nano Banana ProNew
Top-tier 4K images with precise multilingual text rendering.4KPro qualityImage generationSee model
Flux 2 FlexNew
Adaptable generation across varied visual styles at 2K.Image generationSee model
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Speedy 3K output with negative prompt and dual-image input support.Reference inputFast generationImage generationSee model
Kling 3.0 Image
Cinematic visuals with up to 4K resolution and 10 reference images.Reference input4KCinematicSee model
Kling O1 Image
O1-architecture image generation with multi-reference support.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Kling V2 New Image
Latest V2 image generation with optional restyle via image reference.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Hunyuan V3
Infographic-friendly generation with readable text and cfg control.Image generationSee model
Luma UNI-1
Luma UNI-1 — agentic image generation and editing with up to 9 reference images.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Luma UNI-1 Max
Luma UNI-1 Max — higher-quality UNI-1 variant with the same multi-reference editing controls.Reference inputCinematicImage generationSee model
Seedream 4.5
Detailed 4K renders with clean in-image text and dual-image input.Reference input4KImage generationSee model